Artificer's Apprentice
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
(Made for Mark Brown's 2019 GMTK Game Jam)
My second game~! Artificer's Apprentice is based on the bones of a pen-and-paper RPG I was making a while ago, where the main mechanic was this modular gun system. I've stripped it down to one gun.
How does "only one" play into this? it doesn't The main idea of the world this takes place in (which is actually a fantasy world I've been building with some significant liberties) is that all energy is actually one thing. It can be converted to the one common form, mana, and converted back to blow up monsters(or like, better humanity or something). You also only have one weapon, which you have to modify a lot.
PLEASE PLEASE read all the .txt files included in the download! They have the story and controls and such in it.
If you liked the game, please give me a good score! I'm much more proud about this game than my last entry...
Known bugs:
- Sometimes the spell won't show up in the world. Don't worry, it's still firing.
- Monsters turn funny colors. some of this is status effects, and some of it is bugs.
- Very occasionally, the world may generate in such a way you can't make it through the level. Sorry... 'Tis the weakness of random generation.
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Really enjoying seeing some roguelike representation! Quite fun in its simplicity, I've really enjoyed myself here. The unorthodox control scheme was interesting, a weird marriage of numpad controls with WASD (at least it wasn't vi-keys, ugh). I loved how the monsters can hurt each other too, how you can interact with everything, how there's no real pathfinding so encounters are VERY forgiving, this is one of my faves so far!
The only flaw is that it barely fits the theme at all :D